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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 19: Active Matter 2 - organized by Carsten Beta (Potsdam), Andreas Menzel (Magdeburg) and Holger Stark (Berlin) (joint session DY/BP/CPP)

BP 19.4: Vortrag

Dienstag, 23. März 2021, 12:00–12:20, DYa

Dynamical States in Underdamped Active Matter with Anti-alignment Interaction — •Dominic Arold¹ and Michael Schmiedeberg² — ¹TransDeNLab, UKD, Dresden, Germany — ²Institut für Theoretische Physik 1, FAU, Erlangen, Germany

Many active matter systems, especially on the microscopic scale, are well approximated as overdamped, meaning that any inertial momentum is immediately dissipated by the environment. On the other hand, for macroscopic active systems, the time scale of inertial motion can become large enough to be relevant for the dynamics already on the single-particle level [1]. This raises the question of how collective dynamics and the resulting states in active matter are influenced by inertia. We propose a coarse-grained continuum model for underdamped active matter based on a dynamical density functional theory for passive systems [2]. Further, we apply the model to a system with short-range alignment and distant anti-alignment interaction known from the context of pattern formation. Our simulations of under- and overdamped dynamics both predict a structured laning state. However, activity-induced convective flows only present in the underdamped model destabilize this state when the anti-alignment is weakened, leading to a collective motion state which is not predicted in the overdamped limit. A turbulent transition regime between the two states is distinguished by strong density fluctuations and the absence of global ordering.

[1] Scholz C et al. 2018 Nature communications 9 5156

[2] Archer A J 2009 The Journal of chemical physics 130 014509